When José Antonio Kast ran for president in 2021, he vowed to crack down on migration and restore law and order on Chile’s streets. The conservative admirer of dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet lost by double digits.
On Sunday, he won one of the most lopsided presidential victories in Chile’s recent history—with a campaign also focused on migration and crime.
Those widely different results reflect how Kast was able to capitalize on the feeling in Chile and throughout much of South America that migration—mostly people fleeing political repression and an economic crisis in Venezuela—had spiraled out of control.
“We must show great strength against crime, organized crime, impunity and disorder,” Kast, 59 years old, said in his victory speech Sunday. “Chile can’t become used to fear.”
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Foreign-born residents now make up close to 10% of Chile’s population, one of the highest levels in Latin America, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010, it was 2.1%.
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